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- From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: Oldest City in North America?
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Hernan Astudillo R." at Sep 11, 92 8:54 pm
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- >
- > In article <1992Sep11.060049.28411@europa.lonestar.org>
- tom@europa.lonestar.org
- > (Tom Kimball) writes:
- > >
- > >OK. Its time for a geography lesson for you both.
- > >North America = everything north of the Columbia-Panama border.
- >
- > OK. It's time for a geography lesson for you one.
- > The country south of Panama is COLOMBIA, not Columbia.
- >
- > --hernan
- OK. More geography lessons for you two.
-
- The country south of Panama (though separated from it by a large stretch of
- sea) is Ecuador. Colombia is EAST of Panama. Large chunks of Colombia and
- Venezuela are north of the Colombia/Panama border and thus fall in North
- America under Tom's definition (as, if we're being uncharitable, do all Europe,
- much of Africa, and most of Asia).
-
- 'And I know the place he lives in (or at least--I think I do)
- It is Ecuador, Brazil or Chili-- possibly Peru;
- You must find it in the Atlas if you can.'
-
- - Hilaire Belloc, 'The Llama'
-
- Christopher
-